Where: Cuba (22.7° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 52.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Americano Member (Guasasa Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray lime mudstone and lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: R. Myczynski. 1989. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the Tithonian of Western Cuba. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 59:43-125 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57711: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Subplanites cubensis ammonite |